Capitolo 2
and acquired many great lines of earth on a tributary of the
Shenandoah. On my fatherly side I never knew any the ancestor, but
has the good cause to believe that they was adventurers. My mother's young girl
name was Reed; she was of a kind family that was able to trace
their ancestors over the colonial days, also to the smaller nobility of
England. Generations of good birth were reflected in my mother;
and through a raw and adventurous life I can separately remember the
refinement of his/her manners, his/her courtesy to guests his/her gentleness to
child and slave.
My days of childhood were one happy. I attended a school of signature
many miles from house, riding again and before on a pony. The studies
it was elementary, and although I never distinguished me in mine
classes, I was ready to always race my pony, and it never refused to play
pupil that marinates the school when the from swimming was good. Evidently my father not agreements never
some of his/her boys for a professional career, although it was a deposit
my mother's hope that everybody of us should receive an education of university.
Mine oldest brother and I developed soon instincts of business, while buying
calves and accompanying our father on his/her consignments of commerce. Once
during a vacation, when we approximately had twelve years and ten years old, both
of us the mountains crossed with him in that what time Virginia Di is the west,
where he approximately bought two hundred young steers and it drove again them to
our house in the valley. I am due to be blessed with an infallible
memory; more than fifty years they are passed since then that, my first trip from
house, I still remember vividly it--you/he/she can recall conversations among mine
father and the sellers as them discussed on the bovine livestock. I remember the
money, gold and silver with which to pay for the steers, was brought
from my father in saddle-purses to the agenda thrown through his/her saddle. As
occasion required, the funds were frequently brought by a man of black of
ours, and at night, when among knowledges, the heavy saddle-purses